wisegreyowl

@wisegreyowl@mastodonapp.uk

I'm an #engineer & #writer. Also help authors promote their #books through Wise Grey Owl - https://www.wisegreyowl.co.uk (really).

Avatar: The Wise Grey Owl

I live in #Yorkshire and love #Walking. Have hiked the UK #CoastToCoast, #HadriansWall and the #ClevelandWay plus others and #trekked in China, Nepal, Vietnam & Morocco.

I have macular degeneration and want to make the most of my sight whilst I have it, so I like to paint, photograph & follow artists & photographers.

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wisegreyowl, to hiking

Taken in 2022, my mood photo (very Harry Potterish) was taken on the platform of the pretty-much-deserted Lealholm station on the North Yorks Moors line that terminates at Whitby. I had done a walk of nearly 10 miles and stopped at a bench seat to open a flask of coffee and munch on a cheese bap (bread roll or bread bun, depending on your origin). Perfect day for trekking.

wisegreyowl, to random

My electricity costs £29p per KWh. My gas costs £7p per KWh - both excluding the standing charge.

So electricity is 4+ times more expensive than gas. At British temperatures, heat pumps transfer 3 x the input energy to the house from outside. But electricity is 4x more expensive, so I will be out of pocket on the running costs of a heat pump, and that doesn't take into account hot water requirements. So, the adverts for heat pumps better stop telling me that I'll say money because I won't.

wisegreyowl, to art

Someone would love to receive an old fashioned thank you card from you.

Make it special with a card created from original art.

https://wisegreyowl.craftersmarket.uk
Sorry, ships to UK Only.

#GreetingsCards #Art #DigitalArt #ThankYou #AYearForArt

wisegreyowl, to art

Today's mood sketch is 'Man on a Quay'.

#MoodSketch #AYearForArt #Art #DigitalArt #Jomuja

wisegreyowl, to southafrica

My mood photo, from 2020 (pandemic year) when we paid a visit to South Africa in February to leave on the last day before SA's airspace was closed, arriving back the day before the UK's first lockdown started. 4 rolls of toilet rolls were all we had! Whew!

#MoodPhoto #PandemicYear #SouthAfrica

wisegreyowl, to random

wisegreyowl, to art

Old Aunt Mabel would love to receive an old-fashioned letter from you.
Make it special with a greetings card created from original art.

https://wisegreyowl.craftersmarket.uk
Sorry, ships to UK Only.

#GreetingsCards #Art #AYearForArt

wisegreyowl, to random

wisegreyowl, to random

Amen.

wisegreyowl,

@writeblankspace Thanks for the prod... not sure why I omitted alt-text but... have added it now.

wisegreyowl, to art

A Merry Yorkshire Christmas everyone from Bruno, looking out over the hills at the top of Malham Cove.

wisegreyowl, to art

My mood photo of today is of a sketch I did earlier in the year. I like it... but it doesn't mean you have to 🫢.

#MoodPhoto #AYearForArt #Art #DigitalArt #AManOnABoat #Seascape #Alone

wisegreyowl, to southafrica

My mood photo of today was taken in 2019 during our trip to South Africa, on our way to the Cape of Good Hope.

#MoodPhoto #SouthAfrica #Penguins

feral_hattie, to random

Sorry for being sincere, but the pain of giving birth to a child is literally one’s body’s attempt to tell the brain what it must come to endure in giving that child away to the world when it’s time to do so, just in case anyone mistakes labor as the hardest part of having a baby

wisegreyowl,

@feral_hattie Even a man can understand that. I didn't endure the labour pains (though I was there) but I have been through much since but this time my wife and I have shared the pain.

wisegreyowl, to random

wisegreyowl, to art

Great for those THANK YOU messages after Christmas, the Yorkshire Collection of greeting cards - created from original art.

Sorry, UK shipping only.
https://wisegreyowl.craftersmarket.uk

#Yorkshire #AYearForArt #Art #GreetingsCards #GreetingsCards #Craft #Craftwork

br00t4c, to california
@br00t4c@mastodon.social avatar

California Secretary of State Warns Shasta County Against Hand Counting

#california

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/california-secretary-of-state-warns-shasta-county-against-hand-counting/

wisegreyowl,

@br00t4c I have two hands. How many does everyone else have?

wisegreyowl, to history

My mood photo today was taken yesterday in Knaresborough (& yes, we walked up them) during our fairly regular constitutional winter walk - because it's mostly on path, so not muddy. They're called 'Gallons Steps' - not sure why, but for a long time, I thought they were Gallow Steps!

#MoodPhoto #Yorkshire #Knaresborough #Steps #OldeEngland #History

wisegreyowl, (edited ) to random

My mood photo of today was taken in 2012 at Bempton Cliffs near Flamborough Head - March when the migrant seabirds were arriving but before the puffins made their appearance. Chalk cliffs, a chilly & choppy North Sea, give this photo a hint of a crisp frigid day.

#MoodPhoto #BemptonCliffs #Flamborough #Yorkshire #EastYorkshire #Seascape

wisegreyowl, to art

Limited edition greetings cards from original art signed by the artist.

Buy them here: https://wisegreyowl.craftersmarket.uk

#AYearForArt #Art #DigitalArt #GreetingsCards #GreetingCards #LimitedEdition

wisegreyowl, to environment

There is one sure fire way for us all to reduce the climate risk, and it's simple... but can you do it?

Stop consuming. EVERY TIME you go to buy ANYTHING, ask the question Do I NEED it? Reducing your consumption by half will reduce emissions, and the economy will move on to something else. If we each make the right choices, that something else will favour sustainability.

wisegreyowl, to sketch

wisegreyowl, to random

I dipped into my photos from 2003 and found one of a rose we had at the front door for many years, sadly deceased now. It had a lovely scent and was a prolific flower producer. Herewith, I pronounce you my mood photo for Saturday.

#MoodPhoto #Rose #EnglishGarden #Flora

wisegreyowl, to nepal

A blast from the distant past for today's Mood Photo. It was taken in 2004 as the sun rose over the Annapurna mountain range on our last day of hiking during a charity trek to Nepal. I have wonderful memories of Nepal: its people particularly: gentle, tough, polite - a wonderful population let down by an awful political system.

#MoodPhoto #Nepal #Trekking #Hiking #Annapurna

nuncio, to random

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    wisegreyowl,

    @nuncio Nope, and it's not long enough to duck duck myself. Not sure that EVs will save the planet but I am sure as hell that hydrocarbons WILL destroy life as we know it.

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